If a compression format other than gzip is used we might as well move to xz instead of bzip2.
11.0M qemu-1.1.1-1.tar.gz 9.2M qemu-1.1.1-1.tar.bz2 7.3M qemu-1.1.1-1.tar.xz --- Makefile | 6 +++--- scripts/make-release | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 621cb86..9fbaa0e 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -234,10 +234,10 @@ clean: VERSION ?= $(shell cat VERSION) -dist: qemu-$(VERSION).tar.bz2 +dist: qemu-$(VERSION).tar.xz -qemu-%.tar.bz2: - $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/make-release "$(SRC_PATH)" "$(patsubst qemu-%.tar.bz2,%,$@)" +qemu-%.tar.xz: + $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/make-release "$(SRC_PATH)" "$(patsubst qemu-%.tar.xz,%,$@)" distclean: clean rm -f config-host.mak config-host.h* config-host.ld $(DOCS) qemu-options.texi qemu-img-cmds.texi qemu-monitor.texi diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release index 196c755..2237afd 100755 --- a/scripts/make-release +++ b/scripts/make-release @@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ git checkout "v${version}" git submodule update --init rm -rf .git roms/*/.git popd -tar cfj ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination} +XZ_OPT=-9 tar cfJ ${destination}.tar.xz ${destination} rm -rf ${destination} -- 1.7.6 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.